The contact, who was one of her husband's work employees, told the woman to "unplug your Alexa devices right now". The Alexa voice inside the Echo has a series of checks to ensure that messages are not sent without the explicit consent of the people stood around the device but somehow Alexa mistakenly thought that those checks had been satisfied.

To play an audiobook in your library, just say: "Alexa, read ..."

Amazon's Alexa-powered Echo devices are meant to make home life a little easier, enabling users to ask questions on the fly, plan days out and, apparently, record your conversations unknowingly before sending it to members of your contact list. After calling multiple times and speaking with an assortment of Amazon employees, the family finally spoke with an Amazon engineer.

Hours after the report came out, Amazon acknowledged that was a sort of glitch with this particular Echo Dot speaker and that Alexa misunderstood the conversation as a command.

Danielle explained her whole house was wired with Amazon devices, something not uncommon for fans of the Alexa units.

There have always been accusations that digital assistants such as Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri are constantly listening in on and recording conversations, and recent events in Portland, Oregon are simply going to serve as extra fuel for conspiracy theorists.

"I'm never plugging that device in again, because I can't trust it", she stressed. Amazon blamed the "extremely rare" incident on an unlikely sequence of events. "We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future", the company said in a statement. After asking "to Whom?" should the message be sent, more background conversation was interpreted as a name in the family contacts list. Even Amazon agrees that this was an unlikely chain of events, but says it is working on ways to make it even more unlikely to repeat. Two weeks ago, she received an urgent message from one of her husband's colleagues, who lived in Seattle, that her digital assistant was likely hacked as he received a recording of her private conversation with her husband.

Iran's oil buyers continue to buy its crude, assessing the implications of the sanctions during the 180-day wind-down period. India, the third-largest consumer of oil after the USA and China , would be especially hard-hit if prices keep rising.

Bolton, a National Security Council spokesman said , consulted widely with his colleagues and European allies on Iran. Altmaier said Germany wished to avoid "a coil of escalation" in transatlantic exchange connections.

The app is available on Android , iOS and the web, and anyone is able to use it, all you need is a Google account to sign in. This won't close the app or pause the video, though, and it's up to you whether or not you will continue procrastinating.

At present, EU treaties don't provide a procedure for a member state to leave the euro, without leaving the Union as well. Berlusconi has refused to govern with the 5-Stars, who he regards as "more unsafe than communists".

I think this is all going to get resolved, I really believe, over time", Kudlow said at an event in Washington on Tuesday. The foreign ministry said Vice Premier Liu He will visit the U.S. from Tuesday to Saturday for consultations with U.S.

That said, some people don't want to complete missions, or want to spend a few dollars and get stuff right away. This is important, seeing as to how the desert map has been on PC since December 12, 2017.

But the lineup the umpires got had Cabrera second and Flores third, meaning Cabrera automatically was called out after his double. It was the first time a major league team was caught batting out of turn since the Brewers did it in 2016.

It may be that a more virulent strain of E. coli is to blame, she said, or that the lettuce was contaminated with many bacteria. As far as hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS ), the kidney failure that can make E. coli infections fatal, that count is up to 17.

Putin is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday and French President Emmanuel Macron next week. Russian Federation has been involved in Syria's civil war since September 2015.

With YouTube Premium , you'll be free of ads, able to play videos in the background, or download them for offline playback. And in the course of a month this service will be available in Canada, Germany, France, UK and other European countries.

Among them 4 members Europe: Austria, Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary - the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Israel. Needless to say, the Palestinian Authority had its own " strongly worded message " for the block.

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